Facing Up is a young adult coming of age story written by Carolyn Gilpin. Carly is one of thousands of young adults attending university, but she feels isolated and oh, so different from everyone else. One side of her face is scarred from a disastrous...

Forever Boy is Book 1 of Lita Burke's Clockpunk Wizard steampunk fantasy series. Kadmeion is a newly trained wizard whose companion, Bright, is a Metal Man, a seventh son and of Elfin heritage. They've gone to witness a mandrake root being animated and freed. In...

Love in Real Life by Leah Cole is a book of love, of relationships. It isn’t a love story; it’s the real life stories of real people, people who have travelled the long journey of love and have their own tales to tell and their...

Prodigious Savant is a thriller written by J.J. White. Gavin Weaver was counting on getting an athletic scholarship to a good college the following year, but everything changed due to a freak accident. He had met up with his friend Steve, who was shooting at...

Sigh. That was my reaction when I finished David C. Edmonds’ new work, Lily of Peru. You know, the type of sigh you emit after you’ve finished a book that has left you with a deeply satisfying feeling of having read a really, really great...

Courage Comes is a children’s adventure novel by Daniel Thomas McDonald, and forms book one in the Butchery & Books Saga. It follows the quest of a classic trio of young heroes – Mort, Nihlus and Tesa – who trade their childish games of heroism...

Yokche: The Nature of Murder (Chase Larsen Adventure Series Book 1) by PJ Erickson is a murder mystery. Chase Larsen has returned home after learning of his sister’s death, only to find out that the case was closed as an accidental death. Together with his...

Family Secrets: Secrets and Second Chances Book 1 by Donna M. Zadunajsky opens with Alexis Finley contemplating how unfair life is. Ten months ago, Jay, her husband and love of her life, committed suicide. Since then, Colton, Alexis' seventeen-year-old son, has become more distant and...

46 by Melissa Burke is a collection of poems written over a period of several years. Melissa is a young woman battling several mental illnesses including bipolar disorder, eating disorder, OCD, and depression. As may be imagined, her poems have a raw power and quality...

Chukcha the Mountain Monkey by Tamara Popa is an adorable story about the bonding between a wild monkey and the people living in the mountainous region of Ethiopia. Chukcha is given a tree house to live in, but her favorite haunt is the neighbor's wall...

Armed and Alive: True Stories About Everyday People Whose Lives Were Saved by Legally Owned Guns by Antaeus is an interesting collection of stories revolving around guns and people. The stories are real, which makes them even more exciting and relatable. Each story is unique...

A Dash of Desire by Charity Parkerson is the second book in the Spiced Life series. Riley Henderson finds herself with a flat tire by the side of the road in the pouring rain. It is just her luck that Tristan Daniels comes to her...

Her very own apartment, and at only sixteen; it all seemed surreal to Claire, but then again so did the fact that she would never see her mother again. Her mother had finally lost her battle with cancer, and now Claire was in a new...

Samantha Church has already faced tremendous danger and hardship, but things are not getting much better for her in Dead Wrong by Betta Ferrendelli. Still recovering from injuries she received during a kidnapping, Sam feels guilty for Wilson’s need for a prosthesis to replace the...

Cutting the Soul by Theresa Larsen is a memoir that chronicles her son’s battle with mental illness. One day, Matthew comes to her with a cut on his hand, explaining it as an accident when he was messing around with a pocket knife. However, Theresa...

The American Deluge by Uri Norwich is a political thriller. There’s a new President in the White House. Before he was sworn in, he snuck in and sat in the Oval Office and tried to feel as though he belonged. The exiting President visited him...

Monster Mayhem is a picture pop-up book for children written by Melinda Kinsman. Billy has monsters living under his bed. They are constantly up to mischief, but do not speak at all. These monsters have greedy appetites, and they know just where to go for...

The Wretched Road to Success: A Book on Business and Management Theories by Matthew Krumsiek is enticing, informative and cleverly crafted for business owners. Wretched Road to Success offers so much to readers so let’s explore a few highlights: define your destination, determine who you...

The Last Order by Angela M. Caldwell is a medieval tale of iron-willed 17-year-old Lana Crewe who lives in a village with her father. When the king and queen of Wenham are killed, the kingdom is divided and war between the lords is inevitable. Lana’s...

Three Decades of Lily by Diane C Smyth is the story of five women who, growing up in differing circumstances, each exciting in its own right, happen to join together in life and flourish. The story starts at the funeral of one of the five...